b. 1979, Harlem, New York, USA Lives and works in Harlem, New York, USA Jamel Robinson is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans abstract expressionist painting, assemblage, sculpture, installation, poetry, and performance. His work functions as a time stamp of lived experience, rooted in materials and themes associated with the historic and contemporary grief surrounding the Black experience in America. His art has been acquired into permanent collections at institutions such as the Hudson River Museum in New York and Bunker Artspace Museum in West Palm Beach. Robinson received critical acclaim in The New York Times and CBS News for his solo exhibition Beauty from Ashes at the Hudson River Museum in 2021, a body of work developed in dialogue with the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s exhibition African American Art in the 20th Century. He was also honored as the Museum’s 2022 Gala Honoree, and June 17 was officially named “Jamel Robinson Day” by city and county officials in recognition of his contributions to art and youth programming. In 2022–23, he completed the inaugural Long Meadow Art Residency in the Berkshires, producing a significant body of new assemblages, abstract paintings, and sculptures.